THE WEATHER: Great Yelling

Incredible cold gripped the Whitehorse
Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway,
the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below
zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in
the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers
from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear.

Over Oregon the winds lost much of their icy speed and became a lowering
cold front that pushed down the Coast and across the eastern ranges....